When It Comes to Cooking Videos, Gen Zers Love TikTok, Millennials Embrace YouTube
As a former industry analyst, I’m a sucker for survey research exploring how we cook, eat, and shop for food. Luckily for me, word of a new research study landed […]
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How Mini Melts Built a $150M Beaded Ice Cream Business With a Nationwide Network of Automated Kiosks
If you’re like me, you’ve probably bought a beaded ice cream at your local ballpark or fairgrounds during the dog days of summer. You know the kind, that ice cream […]
I Attended a Workshop on the Impact of AI on The Food World. Here’s What We Discussed
Last month, I headed down to San Luis Obispo to participate in a National Science Foundation-funded project analyzing the impact of automation and AI on the food system. I’d been […]
Mill Celebrates Standards Group Approval of Upcycled Kitchen Scraps As New Animal Feed Ingredient
Last week, Mill, a company that makes a kitchen scrap upcycling appliance, announced that a standards group had voted to approve a new ingredient feed definition, effectively giving a thumbs […]
Analytical Scientist
A few words about us! Nutropy is a venture-backed French company that develops an animal-free plug & play milk replacement for large scale dairy applications through precision fermentation technology. We […]
Strella Believes Its Machine Learning Tech Will Help Deliver The Perfectly Ripened Banana
Did you know that there’s a job in the banana industry called a ripener? It makes sense, right? After all, anyone who eats bananas knows the time it takes to […]
A Tale of Two Ghost Kitchens: Why Wow Bao Wowed and MrBeast Bombed
This week, James Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, sued Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind his virtual restaurant brand. In the lawsuit, MrBeast and his legal team claim that “Virtual […]
Spinn Coffee is Burning Through Cash, But Says It Will Reach Profitability as It Raises More Money
Spinn, the maker of a grind and brew coffee machine that uses centrifugal force to extract brewed coffee, is currently raising money via Wefunder to fund ongoing operations. The company, […]
As Jobs Disappear, Could Restaurants Become a Battleground For Pushback Against AI & Automation?
Last month, after 29 months straight of job gains, the number of total available restaurant jobs dropped. It wasn’t a huge dip – 800 jobs – but compared to the […]
Cultivated Meat is On Sale, But It’s Pricey. A New Study Shows How to Bring the Cost Down
Now that the cultivated meat industry has achieved the long-awaited milestone of going on sale to consumers in the US, the focus will increasingly turn to whether it’s possible to […]
MIT & NVIDIA Researchers Are Building Tech That Could Enable Better Kitchen-Robot Precision
This week, a group of researchers from MIT and NVIDIA are showing off a system that one day may be pivotal in helping our robot chef make dinner without making […]
The Spoon Weekly: The Edible Barcode
This is the online version of our weekly newsletter. Head here to subscribe to The Spoon and get it delivered straight to your inbox For the last few years, there’s been […]
